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Hekate's Animal-Related Epithets

Agallomenen Elaphoisi ‘Rejoicing in Deer’ Arkuia / Arkyia ‘Spinner of webs’, ‘Entrapper’ Boôpis ‘Cow-eyed’ Booporos ‘Ox-Herder’ Boukolos ‘Ox-Herder’ Drakaina ‘Serpent’, ‘Dragon’ Elaphêbolos ‘Deer-huntress’, ‘Shooter of Deer’ Ellophonos ‘Fawn-slayer’ Eurippa ‘Horse-finder’ Hipparete ‘Horse-Speaker’ Hippokyon ‘Mare Bitch’, ‘Horse Dog’ Hippoprosopos ‘Horse-Faced’ Ippokyôn ‘Mare-Dog’, half dog/ half horse Ippoprosôpos ‘Horse-faced’ Keratôpis ‘Horned-faced’, ‘Horned Looking’ Keroeis ‘Horned’ Kunolygmatos ‘Doglike Howler’, ‘Who howls doglike’ Kynegetis ‘Leader of Dogs’ Kynokephalos ‘Dog-Headed’ Kynolygmate ‘Howling Like a Dog’, ‘Who Howls Dog-like’ Kyôn ‘Bitch’, ‘Dog’ Kyôn Melaina ‘Black Bitch’, ‘Black Dog’ Leaina ‘The Lioness’ Leontoukhos ‘Holding a Lion’ Lykaina ‘She-wolf’ Lyko ‘She-wolf’, ‘Wolf-formed’ Opheôplokamos ‘Coiled with Snakes’, ‘With Snaky Curls’ Philoskylax ‘Lover of Dogs’ Phroune ‘Toad’, ‘Frog’, ‘She-Toad’ Polyplokamos ‘Of Many Tentacles’, ‘With Many Feelers’ Potnia Theron ‘Mistress of Animals’, ‘Lady of Wild Beasts’ Pyridrakontozônos ‘Girt with flaming serpents’ Skylakageia ‘Dog-leader’ Speirodrakontozonos ‘Girt with Serpent Coils’ Taurodrakaina ‘Bull-Dragon’, ‘half bull/ half serpent’ Taurokarênos ‘Bull-headed’ Tauromorphos ‘Bull-formed’ Taurôpis ‘Bull-faced’ Tauropolos ‘Bull-Herder’ Taurôpos ‘Bull-aspected’ Therobromon ‘Roaring like a Wild Beast’, ‘Of the City of the Beast’ Thêroktomos ‘Beast-slayer’ Zônodrakontis / Zonodrakontos ‘Encircled by Serpents’, ‘Covered in Snakes’, ‘Intertwined with Snakes’

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SANCTUARY OF THE CROSSROADS - Discord Server

A community that honours the ancient greek goddess Hekate and other hellenic crossroad divinities like Hermes Enodios and the Lampades, torch-bearing nymphs from the underworld who follow Hekate.

This is a place of connection and education, and we welcome those who walk a path with Hekate!

This online sanctuary is a devotional project in collaboration with the wonderful Piety @daggersandtorches, training Keybearer of Hekate Enodia.

What do we offer?

Discussions, resources and questions channels about Hekate.

Monthly calendar updates and reminders, including deipnon.

A monthly divination offer and request event.

Channels for devotional photos, e-offerings, and prayers.

Ritual events and mini-lessons (archived in forums and live in voice chat).

16+ space that is LGBTQIA+ friendly, system friendly, and neurodivergent friendly

Who is this server for?

In this community we mainly honour Hekate through the lens of hellenic polytheism. This is because of her known history and her historical worship. Though we also understand Hekate as a worldly goddess who is worshipped and loved by many cultures, groups and people.

We welcome those of other paths involving Hekate, though we expect all members to be informed (i.e not appropriate practices) and not speak over or discredit each other.

We hope that any members who join have some sort of interest in Hekate, whether in learning about her, beginning worship of Hekate, or already having a practice with her!

divider credits -> @enchanthings-a

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Recently finished Arin Murphy-Hiscock's The Green Witch. I don't have many thoughts about this one, so it doesn't warrant a full LIBRI OCCULTAE post. I had this one on my radar for a few years, but it always took a backseat because I never saw myself making frequent use of plants in my craft/practice. I'm not really a "kitchen" or "garden" witch; I don't go roaming in the wilds to collect components, nor do I grow anything on my property. Therefore, I can't really make use of about a third of this book's content.

I ended up reading this one now because I've been looking for inspiration on how to commune more deeply with nature. There were some nice ideas in the first third of the book, but everything after this point consisted either of rehashed witchy knowledge or recipes I don't see myself using, at least not for the foreseeable future.

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Diamonds atop a bed of moss.

instagram.

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"Hermes Psychopompos"; the guide of souls to the Underworld.

Process, speedpaint, hi-res vers., etc. on my Patreon.

Prints

I also make pins! This month's pin (Feb) has 1 week left to get, so don't miss out.

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…a dreamer. I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Daphne Du Maurier, from Rebecca

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Nona Limmen

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HOW I APPROACHED A PATH OF DEVOTION

I had Hekate in my orbit for about five years before I considered a deeper commitment to Her. Now that I'm walking the path of devotion (as opposed to simple worship), I thought it might be useful to talk about what this looks like in practice, specifically for a closeted practitioner. Some of the topics I discuss:

WHY I CHOSE TO BECOME A DEVOTEE

CONSIDERING THE PATH AHEAD

PLANNING AND PERFORMING A DEVOTIONAL CEREMONY

HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED

EXCERPTS FROM MY DEVOTIONAL LETTER

This post is reserved for keyholders/patrons! 🖤🔑

Find it HERE.

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WEEKLY SPELLWORK CHALLENGE: FEB 17—FEB 24

My least productive week to date. Following an ongoing conflict (which has technically yet to be fully resolved), I've been hyper-focused on simply detaching, recuperating, and taking a lot of time for myself. As a result, I haven't made much room for spellwork or ritual work.

Spells completed:

Energy work for healing and recovery

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© Nona Limmen {via Instagram}

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digital offering for Hekate #1.

Hail Hekate, Goddess of the dark moon and crossroads. Blessed daughter of Asteria and Perses, may you welcome the prayers and offerings of your witches who cast spells under your darkness. May your torches lead us, may your keys unlock new pathways, may your hounds howl and remind us of your power and glory and love. Protect and guide us so that we may be closer to You as the moon dances from dark to new.

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May Lady Hekate guide you through uncertain times

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listen, you are the authority on your own existence. It’s good to listen to people and sometimes take advice but you are the one who lives inside you so you get the final say. no one can tell you who you are, what you like, or what you want to do with this life because they do not have the privilege of being inside your mind. it is a sovereign space. defend that space so you can live a life that will not betray you.

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“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”

— Warsan Shire

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What I seek is older than words, deeper than longing itself.

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give yourself a sense of place and time. rotate your wardrobe when the weather changes. update your playlists every month. write down three things you did today. do it everyday. message your friends good morning. buy yourself different flavours of tea based on your mood, the packaging, the weather, your heart. save the little paper labels; stick them in your notebook until the inside cover is full of little colored tags. have it hot in the winter. have it cold in the summer. learn to make apple cider, raspberry cordial. spend the summer knitting a scarf for the colder months. spend the winter sewing loose flowy blouses for the summer. open the windows, five minutes a day if it's cold, all day if it's warm. give yourself a sense of place and time and weather.

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We are living ecosystems—microbiomes in the infinite body of Khaos.